Share with permission
This site may share your personally identifiable information with third parties only with your
explicit permission. This site does not contact you without your explicit permission

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for
Scouts on Stamps Society International.
Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to
disclose its information practices. This web site has agreed to notify you of:

1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identification is
collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of
information under SOSSI control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If you feel that SOSSI is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should first contact the
SOSSI Webmaster by email
. If you
do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed,
you should then contact the
. The President will serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.

Information Collection and Use

SOSSI is the sole owner of the information collected on this site or has been given
permission by the verified where the information is not owned. We will not sell, share,
or rent our information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. SOSSI
collects information from our visitors at several different points on our website.

Registration

Site visitors are not required to complete a registration form to visit our site or view any published
contents. No visitor is required at any time to provide demographic information (such as income
level and gender), and unique identifiers (such as social security number).

Policies for Youth (Individuals under 17 Years of Age)

No registration is required to visit the SOSSI website. Youth have complete access to all
information published online at the SOSSI website. Parents should be assured that SOSSI is
Rating by ICRA and is a
Family-Friendly Site.

Youth are required to provide the email address of a parent or guardian when conducting internet
correspondence with SOSSI. This allows the parent or guardian to be aware of and participate
in the youth's online experience. Any parent may request to review all correspondence
from their child after verification of their identity to the SOSSI Webmaster. Contact the
SOSSI Webmaster by email
.

When we do not obtain prior verifiable parental consent, online contact information will be used
only to directly respond to the youth's request and will not be used to contact the youth for
other purposes.

We will not distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information collected from a
youth under age 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

Parents may revoke their consent at any time by contacting the SOSSI Webmaster by email
.

No personal information about youth is posted online at SOSSI by SOSSI web site staff.

Orders

SOSSI does not maintain an online order capability to support our
SOSSI Sales. All sales are done by
mail or PayPal. Questions about SOSSI Sales should be referred to
Mr. Robert Gelwicks, SOSSI Sales Service, P. O. Box 393, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515-0393, USA or

Cookies

SOSSI does not use cookies at our site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's
hard drive containing information about the user. Some external stamp collecting and
Scout-related websites linked by SOSSI use cookies. However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.

Log Files

Our Web Hosting Company records IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the
site, and track user's movement for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to
personally identifiable information. These statistics are not viewable by the general public.

This web site contains links to other sites. These links are usually indicated with this symbol
. Please
be aware that SOSSI is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every
web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by this Web site.

Chat

Effective December 31, 2008, SOSSI does not provide an online Chat service.

Greeting Cards

Effective December 31, 2008, SOSSI does not provide a Greeting Card generation service.

Surveys & Contests

SOSSI does not conduct surveys or contests.

Tell-A-Friend

SOSSI does not employ a referral service for informing a friend about our site. Visitors are
encouraged to tell others about SOSSI.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our visitors' information. When users submit
sensitive information via email to SOSSI, your information is protected both online and off-line and
is not further shared without consent of the visitor. SOSSI Youth Members are not permitted to
post information on the Members Page. If
you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to
.

Supplementation of Information

SOSSI does not supplement the information we receive from SOSSI members or visitors with information
from 3rd party sources.

Site and Service Updates

We also send SOSSI Members site and service announcement updates. We communicate with SOSSI
Members to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email
.

Correction/Updating Personal Information

If a SOSSI Member's personally identifiable information changes, or if a member no longer desires
our service, we will correct, update or remove that member's personal data provided to us. This
can be done by emailing us
.

Notification of Changes

If SOSSI decides to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose
it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from
that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify SOSSI Online Members by way of an email. Users
will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will
use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using this site, you signify your assent to the SOSSI Internet Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree to this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the SOSSI web site following
the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

The SOSSI Internet Privacy Policy is published to comply with the United States Federal Trade
Commission rules for website operators to make sure that youth privacy is protected while they're
online. These rules are part of the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. COPPA and
its accompanying FTC regulation establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children
using the Internet.